Bilsdorf (Nalbach)

Bilsdorf Nalbach municipality
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 2 "  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 19"  E
Height :	208  (196-237)  m above sea level NN
Area :	3.37 km²
Residents :	1264
Population density :	375 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Postal code :	66809
Area code :	06838
Location of Bilsdorf in Saarland

Bilsdorf ( in the local, Moselle-Franconian dialect Belschdroff ) is the smallest district of the municipality of Nalbach . The place is located on the lower Prims , a tributary of the Saar , in the Saarlouis district . The state capital Saarbrücken is about 25 km southeast.

Bilsdorf, Herz-Jesu-Kirche

Look at Bilsdorf and Hoxberg of Piesbach from

View of Bilsdorf from the Litermont summit, in the center of the picture the Bilsdorf church, a little to the left of it on a hill the area of ​​the historic Bilsdorfer Vogteihof

Place name

The place name and its spelling have undergone multiple changes over the centuries until the current form of the name prevailed:

• 1152: Bullingestorf
• 1324: Bullinsdorf
• 1327: Bullisdorf
• 1344: Bulleßdorff
• 1393: Bulstorff
• 1522: Bullesdorff and Bulleßdorff
• around 1600: Bielstorff
• 1623: Biltzdorf
• 1633: Bilsdorff and Bilstroff
• 1700: Bilsdorff

history

Prehistory and early history

As numerous archaeological finds prove, the Saar and Primstal were already inhabited by people from the Paleolithic to this day.

Antiquity

In 1976 in Bilsdorf (corridor 5, Bilsdorf district), building remains from Roman times were found when a pond was being dredged in Brückenstraße at a depth of 2.50 m. These are Roman pedestal stones that formed the foundation of a Roman half-timbered building. In addition, a Roman cult stone (height: 90, shaft: 35 × 35 cm, base and top: 50 × 50 cm) was discovered in the same area. The assumed ancient homestead was on the site of an old Primsfurt. Today the Primssteg crosses the river here.

middle Ages

View from the Hoxberg to the Nalbacher Tal with the Litermont

Bilsdorf is probably named after a Franconian founder of the town (Bulling, Bullingo, Bullino or similar).

Sketch of the Nalbach Valley from 1735; in the middle the course of the prims with two mills; the villages of Körprich and Bilsdorf on the left bank of the Prims; Bettstadt, Piesbach, Theter, Nalbach and Diefflen on the right bank of the Prims; Above is southeast. The sketch was probably drawn from the point of view of today's Nalbach cemetery; The capital letters mean: A = The Körpricher Brühlwiese owned by the Trier Elector, B = The Nalbacher Athwiese owned by the Trier Elector, The Nalbacher Brühlwiese owned by the Electoral Palatinate or Baron von Hagen, D and E = two meadows owned by the Lordship of Hagen (Landesarchiv Saarbrücken, Münchweiler inventory, No. 367, p. 257)

Since it was founded in the Middle Ages, Bilsdorf and the valley communities of the lower Primstal , Diefflen , Körprich and Piesbach have been subordinate to the main town of Nalbach. Bilsdorf's first documentary mention as "Bullingestorf" in a pilgrimage document from Mettlach Abbey dates back to around 940/950. Bilsdorf belongs to the electoral trier bailiwick of the Nalbach valley. Legal matters were every year before the portal of Nalbacher Church of St. Peter and Paul under the court lime tree in the so-called Weis shrines negotiated and announced.

Since the Middle Ages there was a manor house in Bilsdorf, which was owned as a fiefdom by the respective bailiff. The respective bailiffs leased this farm. The farm is mentioned in a document in the interest register of the Nalbach Valley from 1514 to 1522. This courtyard can be seen on a sketch from 1735. There is a clear distinction between the village and the Bilsdorf farm. The village is on the Electorate of Trier, the farm on the Electorate of the Palatinate. The Bilsdorfer Hofstrasse still indicated the historic courtyard. In 1527 the farm came into the possession of Count Johann Ludwig (Nassau-Saarbrücken) . In 1548 the Lord von Braubach, who resided in Dillingen Castle , took over the farm, and in 1664 it passed to Charles Henri de Lénoncourt-Blainville, who was also resident in Dillingen and who later founded the Dillinger Hütte . The noble family Hagen zur Motten received the Bilsdorfer Hof in 1711.

As early as 1730, the farm was regarded as an allodial property of the barons of Hagen, although a distinction was still made between the fief and the lands acquired. On July 16, 1740, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen transferred the Bilsdorfer Hof to Johann Georg Brößler for a total of 575 Reichstalers for a period of six years. It has not been established whether Brößler was still a tenant after 1746. In 1767 the leaseholder's possessions (furniture, animals) were forcibly auctioned off on July 30th, as the then court owner Jakob shoes had not paid his lease. The debts to the Hagens rule at this time amounted to 1322 Reichstaler and 36 Albus. Since the auction could not cover the debts, the leaseholder's guarantor had to settle the difference to the barons. As early as July 4, 1767, interested parties could apply to take over the Bilsdorfer Hof with 52 pieces of arable land, meadows with a yield of 44 feet of hay and eight pieces of garden under a nine-year lease. The winner of the auction was Peter Pfeiffer, who had offered 141 Reichstaler in annual lease. The subsequent tenant was Nikolaus Kammer (1715–1783) from Bilsdorf. The last tenant of the farm before the French Revolution was Jakob Mühlenbach. In the turmoil of the revolutionary events, the tenant did not pay any lease fees to the Hagensche rule for several years. With the death of the Imperial Council President Johann Hugo II von Hagen in 1791, the property of the main line fell to his three sisters. Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen received the Bilsdorfer Hof, who continued to lease the estate to Jakob Mühlenbach from 1799 to 1806 for 125 Reichstaler annually. When Mühlenbach was no longer able to raise the lease amount, Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen, who lived as a canoness , divided up the agricultural areas of the farm and leased them piece by piece.

On July 10, 1806, Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen had the Bilsdorfer Hofgut auctioned off with its residential buildings, barns, stables, outbuildings, fields, meadows and gardens. The courtyard house with outbuildings, associated gardens, five meadows and 14 arable land went to the miller of the Bettstadter mill , Jakob Bilsdorffer (1755–1843). Further plots of land were auctioned off to residents of the Nalbach valley from Bilsdorf and Nalbach. The auction brought in a total of 6071 guilders, of which 1300 guilders went to the courtyard building with the adjoining gardens. In the following years, a farm building was destroyed by fire in 1838. The main building burned down in 1904. Both buildings in Weiherstrasse were rebuilt after the fire.

Anna Maria Charlotte von Hagen (1721–1811), canon of the St. Maria- and St. Clemens-Stift zu Schwarzrheindorf , painting from 1751 (private collection)

Early modern age

Depiction of the Nalbach valley with Bilsdorf on a section of the Lorraine map (northern part) by Gerhard Mercator from 1564–1585 (Saarbrücken State Archives, Hellwig Collection)

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the Nalbach Valley was ravaged by the witch craze and there were convictions and executions that were carried out on the Nalbach Galgenberg.

Thirty Years' War

During the Thirty Years' War there was severe devastation in the Nalbach Valley by Swedish, French and Croatian troops. Two thirds of the valley population were killed or had to flee.

Reunion policy

Around 1664, Charles Henri Gaspard de Lenoncourt, Marquis de Blainville, Lord of Dillingen, († 1713), a high Lorraine nobleman and founder of the Dillinger Hütte , became a governor in the Electoral Palatinate Bailiwick of the Nalbacher Valley. In 1681 he organized the so-called reunification of the Nalbach Valley with the Kingdom of France under King Louis XIV. The aim of this reunification policy was that areas of the Holy Roman Empire , which, according to the French view , were legally connected to certain territories under French sovereignty , with France " again should be united." In this way, large parts of today's Saarland and its neighboring areas were incorporated into the French state by 1688 , since the Holy Roman Empire was unable to offer military resistance (not least because of the simultaneous Turkish war ). In 1697, the Holy Roman Empire got the French reunions in Saarland, including the valley towns with Bilsdorf, back through the Peace of Rijswijk .

Emigrations

Due to the poor living conditions in the Nalbach Valley, around 1750 there was a wave of emigration to Hungary, which had been depopulated by the Turkish wars . The emperor's government in Vienna tried to recruit new settlers for the devastated areas in the Hungarian lowlands. With the promise of free arable and building land, building material, seeds and planting material for grain and wine, tax exemption in the first years of settlement, free transport with food and medical care from the collection points to Hungary, people who want to emigrate should be found. The Saar region made up a not inconsiderable part with 5000 emigrants. At that time, the Nalbacher Tal released 96 residents from toddlers to old people. 36 emigrants came from Nalbach, 34 from Piesbach, 20 from Körprich and 6 from Bilsdorf. It is not yet known whether Diefflen provided emigrants. The emigration began around 1750 and continued until after 1780. Main thrusts were in 1751 and 1766.

French Revolution

After France declared war on Austria in 1792, Austria took up a position in the Nalbach Valley. In the period that followed, there were battles between the Austrians and the French and the valley communities were looted. In 1794, revolutionary France was able to occupy the Nalbach Valley and incorporated Bilsdorf with the other valley communities into its dominion. Since 1798, Bilsdorf and the Nalbach Valley belonged to the Département de la Sarre ( Saardepartement ). With the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte , the Nalbach Valley was no longer part of France as a result of the First Peace of Paris . It was subordinate to an Austrian-Bavarian regional administration commission, which was installed on January 16, 1814 with its seat in Kreuznach . This was intended as a temporary measure, as it had not yet been conclusively clarified to which power the Nalbach Valley was to fall as part of the reclaimed German areas on the left bank of the Rhine. This meant that the eastern ban border of Dillingen and Lenten and the western ban border of Diefflen were also the state border for more than a year.

Transition to the Kingdom of Prussia

After Napoleon's return and his final defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815, as well as his exile on the island of St. Helena , Dillingen and leases were also separated from France in the Second Peace of Paris and handed over to the Kingdom of Prussia ( Rhine Province ) with the entire Nalbach Valley .

The entire Nalbach Valley was initially allocated to the Ottweiler district under Prussian administration . On July 1, 1816, it came from the district of Ottweiler to the district of Saarlouis . According to the 1821 census, the Nalbach Valley had 335 houses, 375 households and 1950 inhabitants.

From 1821 to 1829, the Nalbacher Tal was administered by the mayor's office in Fraulautern , as the Nalbacher Tal community, consisting of six villages (founded as a legal form in 1815), could not afford the administrative costs for the mayor's office. All Nalbach valley communities belonged to the joint community. From 1830, the administration of the mayor of the Nalbach Valley passed from Fraulautern to Saarwellingen (personal union) and lasted until December 31, 1899. Nalbach and Saarwellingen formed a dual mayor under the direction of the Mayor of Saarwellingen.

In 1858, the Nalbach joint community was dissolved into individual communities.

20th century

The new Primssteg opened on August 30, 2018 after a two-year closure

In the years 1899–1901, the Nalbach Valley was connected to the railway network with the construction of the Dillingen / Saar - Primsweiler railway line. This gave Bilsdorf and Körprich their own stopping point, even though the Nalbach mayor's council had asked for the tracks to be laid on the right-hand side of the Primate. For the communities of the Nalbach valley there was now a Nalbach train station, but it was on the Saarwellingen district and a stop in Körprich. The new stop, however, was called Bilsdorf and not Körprich. Tickets could initially only be purchased in a nearby Körprich inn, then in a makeshift barracks. The station building was only erected in 1930. To reach this station from Piesbach, the municipality of Piesbach built the "Bettschder Steg" over the Prims at the Bettstadter Mühle in 1923. In 1940 the previously wooden footbridge was replaced by an iron one. During their retreat, the troops of the German Wehrmacht destroyed this pier in the spring of 1945. After the war, the jetty was poorly repaired before a new concrete pedestrian bridge was built over the Prims in 1956. With the compulsory municipal merger of Körprich and Bilsdorf in 1935, the station was renamed "Bahnhof Körprich". Passenger transport on the Dillingen-Primsweiler railway line was discontinued by the Deutsche Bundesbahn on June 1, 1980. The route will continue to be used for freight traffic.

In 1906, a joint post office for Bilsdorf and Körprich was set up in the Körprich restaurant in Frings near the train station.

In 1912 the Dillingen-Diefflen-Nalbach tram line was opened (1955 shutdown in favor of buses).

Planning for the electrification of Bilsdorf also began in 1912, but this was not realized after the outbreak of the First World War.

In the First World War , 12 soldiers from Bilsdorf died.

Saar area

As a result of the Peace Treaty of Versailles , Bilsdorf and the Nalbach Valley as part of the Saar area were placed under the League of Nations from 1920 and did not return to the German Empire until 1935 after the referendum on January 13th.

The connection of Bilsdorf to the electrical power grid took place in the years 1920 to 1923. The public local lighting was created in 1926. In 1926 a central water pipe with house connections was built.

Ballot for the Saar vote in 1935

For the entire municipality of Nalbach with Diefflen, Piesbach, Bilsdorf and Körprich, the results of the referendum of January 13, 1935 were as follows:

• Eligible voters: 6,191
• Votes cast: 6,140
• Valid votes: 6,105
• White ballot: 23
• Invalid ballot papers: 12
• Voted for affiliation with the French Republic: 13 (= 0.2%)
• Voted for the status quo: 705 (= 11.6%)
• Votes for the return to the German Reich: 5,387 (= 88.2%)

The pastor Nikolaus Demmer (1892–1954) from Nunkirchen fled to the Saar area under the administration of the League of Nations in 1933 after the National Socialist seizure of power and several short-term arrests due to massive opposition to the NS regime von Mandern . The then Nalbach pastor Richard Meffert, who was friends with Demmer, provided Demmer with a new provisional pastoral care center in Bilsdorf on April 1, 1933. But even at his new position in Bilsdorf, Pastor Demmer not only positioned himself from the pulpit against the National Socialists from 1933 to 1935, but, contrary to the political attitude of his Trier Bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser , warned in numerous publications against a reintegration of the Saar area to the National Socialist ruled the German Reich, which he branded as an injustice state. Demmer, who was a member of the Catholic Center Party , arranged meetings of Nazi opponents from Saarlouis in the Bilsdorf rectory . B. Edgar Hector . These meetings were watched suspiciously by Jakob Weyrich, the headmaster and local group leader of the Nazi organization "Deutsche Front Bilsdorf '". Weyrich had Demmer spied on and put the SA on him, which tried several times between 1933 and 1934 to kidnap the pastor into the Reich. On April 26, 1934 an arrest warrant was issued against Demmer because of the anti-fascist intention of his sermons and alleged offenses against the treachery law . Demmer had publicly warned that National Socialism would lead to catastrophe in the world. Just one day later, on April 26, 1934, the Trier vicar general suspended him for political "agitation" in the Saar area according to can . 2222 CIC . At the instigation of Bishop Bornewasser of Trier, Demmer was asked to leave the Saar area on August 15, 1934.

In the years 1933 to 1935 the Bilsdorf local group leader Weyrich brought all Bilsdorf associations to his political line with regard to the vote on the reintegration of the Saar region to the German Reich. As a result of the overwhelming victory of the supporters of reintegration and the takeover of power by the NSDAP in the Saar area, Demmer, who was no longer safe from attacks in the Bilsdorf rectory, had to flee from the Saarland to relatives in Lorraine on January 15, 1935. Since his application for a residence permit was rejected there, Demmer fled on to Redingen an der Attert in Luxembourg to the Franciscan Sisters . When Demmer described the National Socialists as a “brown plague” in a letter to the Allgemeine Lebensversicherungsanstalt in Munich at the beginning of 1938 , new measures were initiated against him and an arrest warrant for “insidious attack” on the state and party was issued. On July 3, 1939, Demmer's German citizenship was revoked. After the German attack on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, Demmer was able to hide with two families in Redingen until the end of the war. Due to the small diet of that time and the constant stay in a dark room, Demmer became seriously ill with scurvy and stomach ulcers . After the liberation Demmer was appointed pastor of Dasburg in the Eifel at the end of 1945 and in 1951 from Weiten due to health reasons .

Demmer died in Weiten in 1954 and was buried in the cemetery of his home parish Nunkirchen.

National Socialism and World War II

Bilsdorf on the panorama map "The German Saar" for the Saar vote in 1935, approx. 1934, ed. from the Rheinisches Verkehrsverein e. V. Bad Godesberg and the Palatinate Tourist Association e. V. Ludwigshafen, approx. 100,000, 72 cm × 46 cm, Saarlouis City Archives

According to the result of the referendum of January 13, 1935, Bilsdorf became part of the German Reich again on March 1, 1935. In 1937 the Körprich-Dillingen relief road was laid in preparation for the Second World War. It should serve to transport units of the Wehrmacht from the Reich as quickly as possible to the nearby French border and to move the increasing traffic from Bilsdorf to the right side of the Primate. A section of the Siegfried Line was also built in 1938/1939 in preparation for the war . Soldiers and civil workers from all parts of Germany were quartered in houses. A fortification wall made of concrete bunkers, hump lines and anti-tank ditches was built from the Hoxberg towards Piesbach and Litermont. On April 1, 1937, under the National Socialist government, Bilsdorf was affiliated to Körprich and was now officially called "Körprich II". The "communal marriage", perceived as a forced union, was dissolved on July 1, 1951.

With the outbreak of war on September 1, 1939, no eviction order was given for Bilsdorf because it was outside the Red Zone . Only Diefflen was evacuated in the Nalbach Valley . With the outbreak of war, soldiers of the Wehrmacht were quartered in private houses in Bilsdorf until November 1940; predominantly pioneers, infantry, anti-tank and artillery.

On 28/29 November 1944, the administration for Bilsdorf gave the evacuation order because the western front had reached the district town of Saarlouis . The evacuation to Bavaria , the Hunsrück , the Palatinate , Hesse , Wuerttemberg , the eastern Saar area and Baden did not follow the evacuation of numerous Bilsdorfers in the hope of being rolled over by the US troops. In the winter of 1944/1945, American troops began firing on Limberg on November 29, 1944, and attacked low-level aircraft. German artillery positions had been set up on the Bilsdorfer Steinberg as a counter-defense.

To try to stop the American troops, German troops blew up the Körpricher and Nalbacher bridges over the Prims in March 1945. The plan of the Americans to be able to conquer Dillingen and the lower Primstal upstream failed because of the heavy resistance of the Wehrmacht. Saarlouis, Roden, Fraulautern and Dillingen were severely destroyed by fire from Limberg and in house-to-house fighting. The US troops then decided to take the Nalbach Valley from the north and east. Coming from Lebach, Bilsdorf was taken without a fight on March 19, 1945 after the Wehrmacht troops had given up the bunkers and moved over the Hoxberg to the as yet unoccupied Reich territory. Then US troops from the direction of Nalbach moved into Bilsdorf and occupied two houses at the exits to control the place. On March 19, 1945, all other Nalbach valley communities were conquered by US troops and thus liberated from National Socialism . In the second half of 1945, the French replaced the Americans in the occupation of the Nalbach Valley. The billeting of soldiers was ended in the spring of 1946. At the end of the war, 65 Bilsdorf soldiers were in captivity. 34 of the town's sons had died as soldiers in the fighting during the war. Seven soldiers are missing.

Saar state

With the entry into force of the Saarland constitution on December 15, 1947, Bilsdorf became part of the Saar state . In 1952/1953 the community laid a new water pipe and the whole place was connected to a sewer system. A memorial was erected in the Bilsdorf cemetery for the dead in the world wars of the 20th century. A fire station was built near the cemetery in 1957/1958.

On October 23, 1954, the agreement between the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Saar Statute was negotiated between the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the French Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France . Until the conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany, the agreement provided for the Saarland to be subordinate to a commissioner from the Western European Union . This should represent the country externally. The Saarland government under Prime Minister Johannes Hoffmann (politician, 1890) should, however, continue to be responsible for internal affairs and maintain economic links with France. However, closer economic networking with the Federal Republic was also planned.

Ballot for the referendum on the European Statute for the Saarland on October 23, 1955

In the referendum on the agreement on October 23, 1955 on the European Statute of the Saarland , the Nalbach valley communities voted as follows:

• Nalbach: 569 eligible voters voted yes; 1322 eligible voters voted no.
• Diefflen: 1151 eligible voters voted yes; 1447 eligible voters voted no.
• Piesbach: 392 eligible voters voted yes; 649 eligible voters voted no.
• Bilsdorf: 247 eligible voters voted yes; 293 eligible voters voted no.
• Körprich: 229 eligible voters voted yes; 689 eligible voters voted no.

(The Saarland national average of the no-sayers was 67.7%.) As a result of the subsequent negotiations and the Luxembourg Treaty of October 27, 1956, in which France agreed to the reintegration of the Saarland under West German sovereignty , Bilsdorf became on January 1, 1957 politically and economically affiliated to the Federal Republic of Germany on July 6, 1959 ("Day X") .

After the Second World War, Bilsdorf lost its previous rural character due to the emigration of workers to industry. Barn and stable wings of the local south-west German side houses were demolished or rebuilt. The local road was adapted to the requirements of car traffic and the dirt roads to the needs of modern agricultural machinery. Purely residential areas grew on the outskirts of the town.

Only a few of the traditional cross houses have survived in their original form in Bilsdorf. A prime example of a late south-west German quarter house is on a slope above the main road. The large farmhouse on the site of the historic Bilsdorfer Vogteihof was built in 1912 with simple, sandstone neo-Renaissance drapery . The two-storey residential wing with ten rooms, with full basement, still has the original Mettlach ornamental slab floors, stucco and some furniture from the time of the builder.

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  Bilsdorf, large south-west German transverse house from 1912, view from Dorfstrasse, sandstone walls with original, sandstone-colored plaster facade

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  Bilsdorf, Large Southwest German Quereinhaus from 1912, view from the southeast, painted sandstone walls with an original brick facade made of bricks from the Körprich brick factory

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  Bilsdorf, large south-west German Quereinhaus, view of the six-axis residential wing with original windows and aluminum front door from the 1970s that was not originally built

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  Bilsdorf, Large Southwest German Quereinhaus, view from the southwest, simple neo-Renaissance decorative forms on the sandstone walls

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  Bilsdorf, Large Southwest German Quereinhaus, view of the barn and stable wing with segmental arched barn door and small windows for drying hay

Local government reform

On January 1, 1974, Bilsdorf was incorporated into the newly founded municipality of Nalbach.

21st century

Mining damage

The coal mining of Deutsche Steinkohle AG in the Primsmulde coal field (three-site concept of Saarbergwerke AG since 1988) also resulted in numerous mining-related earthquakes in Bilsdorf . From the Primsmulde Süd area, the company extracted well over half of its coal production in Saarland at the time. It employed around 3,500 miners there.

With the turn of the year 2007/2008 the frequency of the earthquakes increased noticeably. On January 3, 2008, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.4 on the Richter scale was measured. The vibration speed, which is important for assessing the consequences, was 42.3 millimeters per second. On February 23, 2008, a collapse in the Primsmulde Süd mining field caused the largest earthquake in the history of Saarland. At a depth of 1,500 meters with the epicenter Bilsdorf, the quake reached a magnitude of 4.0. The rock's oscillation speed reached up to 93.5 millimeters per second. According to the police in Saarbrücken , there was property damage to buildings. The quake could be felt in the entire Saarlouis district. The protest movements against coal mining in the Primsmulde, which had been going on for some time, reached their peak immediately afterwards. As a result, on February 23, 2008, the Saarland state government under Prime Minister Peter Müller ordered a mining stop for the Saar mine . Hard coal production in the Saar mine ended on June 30, 2012 and thus after several centuries the hard coal production in Saarland ended.

On September 15, 2014 there was a mining-related earthquake of magnitude 2.7 in Primstal, which was felt as an explosive bang. The epicenter was in the area between Saarwellingen and Bilsdorf. However, the RAG rejected allegations that the shock was a result of the rise in pit water. (According to the RAG, the quake was strongest in Saarwellingen with a vibration speed of around 3.6 millimeters per second. The vibration speed at the Primsmulde shaft was 7.5 millimeters per second.) The cause of the quake was in the area of ​​the former Primsmulde mining area located at a depth of about 1400 meters.

politics

The mayor of Bilsdorf is Detlef Germowitz (CDU). After the local elections on May 26, 2019, the following distribution of seats in the local council resulted: The CDU holds the majority with 63.4% (6 seats), the SPD received 36.6% (3 seats).

Nature and leisure

The floodplain zone of the Prims in Bilsdorf is worth seeing . Due to the increased gravel mining in the 20th century, a large area of ​​flooded ponds was created here . A pond was also created here by the Bilsdorf fishing club .

education

A first schoolmaster for Bilsdorf is mentioned in 1823. In 1859, on Friedhofstrasse opposite the confluence with Schulstrasse, the village's first schoolhouse was built. At the inauguration, 42 school children visited the facility for an annual fee of two talers and 13 groschen . The school fees for the children of the Bilsdorf miners were paid by the mine operator. In 1877 the community had its own well dug for school operations , and in 1888 a training area with gymnastics equipment was set up for the children. Since 1924 the school had been divided into two classes, but the two classes had to be taught in a single hall. To remedy this situation, a larger school building with a bathing facility was built on Schulstrasse in 1924/1925. Since 1970, classes 7 to 9 have been schooled in the secondary school in Nalbach; since 1972 also grades 5 and 6. Grades 1 to 4 remained as a primary school in Bilsdorf. After the primary school in Bilsdorf was closed in 1976 due to insufficient student numbers, the Bilsdorf children were also taught in the Körprich school. At the end of the 2007/2008 school year, the Körprich elementary school was also closed and a newly built central elementary school opened for the entire community in Nalbach. The former primary school building in Körprich now houses the Catholic day-care center St. Michael Nalbach-Körprich. The Bilsdorf school building from the 1920s was included in the construction of the new multi-purpose hall (Steinberghalle) in 1978.

In 1961/1962 the community built a kindergarten in Bilsdorf. Until then, the children had been cared for in a private house. The kindergarten , which was closed in 2006, is to function as a village community center in the future .

Bilsdorf, old chapel

religion

→ Main article : Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bilsdorf)

Tower of the Sacred Heart Church in Bilsdorf

A fundraising campaign was started in Bilsdorf in 1891, which should enable a chapel to be built. For this purpose, the congregation made a piece of land available on the “Auf dem Hübel” hill, on which a place of worship had already been located.

In 1921 Bilsdorf was raised to the external chaplaincy of Nalbach. A rectory was built in 1921–1922. In 1939 Bilsdorf was raised to the rank of vicarie , which, however, did not yet have its own asset management. Bilsdorf became a parish with its own asset management in 1946. As a result, the old chapel from 1891 was torn down in 1949 and the current church was built in its place by 1951, which was designed by Saarwellingen architect Heinrich Latz (father of the landscape architect Peter Latz ) and Toni Laub . The church was built in the style of Romanizing abstraction historicism . In June 1951, Prelate Carl Kammer, Dillingen dean Michael Held and Bilsdorf vicar Karl Weller were able to bless the new church in the presence of the Saarland Interior Minister Edgar Hector .

It was not until 1958 that it was separated from the mother parish in Nalbach, and in 1961 it was elevated to a parish . This year four bells (d, e, fis, a) were hung in the tower of the Sacred Heart Church.

graveyard

In the Middle Ages, all the dead in the village of Bilsdorf were buried in the Nalbach churchyard . Burials at the Körprich Michaelskapelle took place for the first time in the years 1695 to 1705, when Körprich, which of all Nalbach valley communities was the furthest away from the Nalbacher St. Peter and Paul , was striving for greater church independence from Nalbach. When the Gothic Nalbach church was demolished in 1762 in favor of a new baroque building and the Nalbach churchyard was therefore not verifiable, all the dead in the Nalbach valley were buried in the churchyard of the Körprich chapel for four weeks. Afterwards, however, the Nalbacher Kirchhof was used again until 1867. A plan to bury the dead from Körprich and Bilsdorf in a common cemetery failed in 1866. As a result, the cemetery around the Korprich Michaelskapelle was reopened in Körprich. The Bilsdorf dead were still brought to Nalbach. The Nalbacher Kirchhof was still used until 1868, when the current cemetery was established in Nalbach between Fußbachstraße and Galgenberg. This cemetery was designed as a cemetery for Nalbach, Piesbach, Bettstadt, Bilsdorf and Diefflen. He lost this function with the establishment of his own cemeteries in the individual villages of the Nalbach valley in connection with the church's separation from the Nalbach mother parish. The centuries-old churchyard at the Nalbacher church was leveled in the following period.

It was only when Bilsdorf was elevated to the status of the external chaplain of Nalbach in 1921 that a separate cemetery was established above the village. Here one was in 1973 mortuary for laying out the dead built, which were laid out in the rooms of the houses to date three days.

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  Bilsdorf, cemetery

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  Bilsdorf, war memorial in the cemetery

literature

• Georg Colesie: witch trials at the high court of Nalbach . In: Journal for the history of the Saar region, 17/18, 1969/1970.
• Georg Colesie: Bailiffs and Bailiffs in the Nalbach Valley . In: Journal for the History of the Saar Region, 20, 1972, p. 36.
• Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A local history of the Saarland , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990.
• Anton Edel: The Inhabitants of the Nalbach Valley 1800–1902. Bettstadt, Bilsdorf, Diefflen, Körprich, Nalbach, Piesbach . Edited by Gernot Karge on behalf of the Association for Local Studies in the Saarlouis district, sources on genealogy in the Saarlouis district and adjacent areas, vol. 30, 2 volumes, Saarlouis 2004.
• Hans Peter Klauck: The inhabitants of the Nalbach Valley before 1803. Bettstadt, Bilsdorf, Diefflen, Körprich, Nalbach, Piesbach . In: Communications from the Working Group for Saarland Family Studies e. V. , 26th special volume, ed. by Werner Habicht, Saarbrücken 1989.
• Dieter Lorig: Bilsdorfer parish history, 1892–2012 . Self-published 2012.

Web links

Commons : Bilsdorf (Nalbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature on Bilsdorf (Nalbach) in the Saarland Bibliography
• Information about the history of the place
• Hard coal and traffic in Bilsdorf
• Bilsdorf on www.nalbach.de
• The place on www.saarlandbilder.net
• Bilsdorf fire department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Homepage Nalbach - municipality data
2. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 22-23.
3. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 15-20.
4. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A Saarland home history , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 249.
5. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler estate, files no.237.
6. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler manor, files no. 367, pp. 339–346.
7. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler estate, files no. 367, pp. 319–328.
8. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 84.
9. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler estate, files no. 351, pp. 111–115.
10. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler estate, files no.365.
11. ↑ Johannes Naumann: The barons of Hagen zur Motten - their life and work in the Saar-Mosel region, Blieskastel 2000, p. 333, 366–368.
12. ↑ Landesarchiv Saarbrücken: holdings of the Münchweiler lordship files no.193, no.266.
13. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 84–85 and p. 160.
14. ↑ Hans Peter Klauck: The inhabitants of the Nalbach valley before 1803. Bettstadt, Bilsdorf, Diefflen, Körprich, Nalbach, Piesbach . In: Communications from the Working Group for Saarland Family Studies e. V. , 26th special volume, Saarbrücken 1989, p. 115.
15. ↑ Johannes Naumann: The Barons of Hagen to Motten - their life and work in the Saar-Mosel region, Blieskastel 2000, pp. 366–368.
16. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 140–142.
17. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A Saarland local history , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 170.
18. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A Saarland local history , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 173 and 187.
19. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A local history in Saarland , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 251.
20. ↑ Georg Colesie: Geschichte des Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 216.
21. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 228-229.
22. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A Saarland home history , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 222.
23. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 251-252.
24. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 223.
25. ^ Result of the referendum in the Saar area of ​​January 13, 1935, publication by the General Secretariat of the League of Nations, Nalbach municipal archive.
26. ↑ Nikolaus Demmer , at mahnmal-trier.de, accessed on December 20, 2016.
27. ↑ Dieter Lorig: Resistance in the village against Adolf Hitler's henchmen - courageous Bilsdorf pastor foresaw disaster . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, local edition Dillingen-Saarlouis from June 22, 2004.
28. ↑ Personnel file in the diocese archive Trier, Department 85, No. 294, page 245 ff.
29. ^ Anton Biwer: seizure of power in the high forest . In: Yearbook of the district of Trier-Saarburg , year 1998, 173–186.
30. ↑ Entry on Nikolaus Demmer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on February 9, 2017 .
31. ^ Joseph Meuniers: German pastor hidden in Luxembourg . In: Rappel. Revue de la Ligue luxembourgeoise des prisonniers et déportés politiques , 2004, No. 3, pp. 425-430.
32. ^ Saarland biographies: Demmer, Nikolaus ( Memento from November 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 8, 2017.
33. ↑ ^{a b c} Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A local history in Saarland , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 224.
34. ^ Gerhard Franz: The victory of the naysayers, 50 years after the vote on the Saar Statute , Blieskastel 2005, p. 181.
35. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 807 .
36. ^ Delf Slotta: The Saarland coal mining industry. Pictures of people, pits and mining environments, stories from contemporary witnesses . Recorded by Georg Fox, ed. from RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Herne and the Institut für Landeskunde im Saarland e. V. (Schiffweiler), Dillingen / Saar 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035206-5 .
37. ↑ Earthquake in Saarland - Collapsed cavities in the mine . In: taz from February 25, 2008.
38. ^ Regional Association of Mining Affected Saar e. V.
39. ^ RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG. ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 4, 2010. 
40. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. A Saarland home history , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 227.
41. ↑ St. Michael Nalbach-Körprich Catholic day-care center , accessed on November 4, 2016.
42. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 220.
43. ↑ Information on the parish church Herz Jesu on: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on April 4, 2015
44. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley. Eine Saarland Heimatgeschichte , 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 190–191 and 224–226.
45. ↑ Dieter Lorig: "Herz-Jesu" celebrates its anniversary . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from February 1, 2011.
46. ↑ Dieter Lorig: Article on church building in Bilsdorf in the section "SZ Extra Moments". In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from 26./27. September 2009.
47. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 196, p. 227–228.